μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 12references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • JapaneseIkeda.
  • general *DeCock Volkssage 31ff.
  • general BP I 148 n. 2
  • general Wesselski Mönchslatein 82 No. 75
  • general Chauvin II 97 No. 55
  • general Archiv f. d. Studium d. neueren Sprachen LXXXI 265
  • general Germania II 481
  • general Basset RTP VII 394ff.
  • general Basset Contes Berbères 95f
  • general *Bødker Exempler 297 No. 60. Spanish: Keller, Espinosa III Nos. 275–277
Within the index

Filed under Triumph of the weak – miscellaneous.

1 finer motif beneath it
Mosquitoes sting King Pharaoh and show they are stronger than the man who cannot escape them
Filed beside it
Needle kills an elk. Slips into his stomachOnly love to offer. Bride asks suitors what they have to offer her. Poor youth who has nothing but love to offer gets herSlow flying swan lasts longer than speedy crow in flyingFrog, tortoise, fish each tell of how long they expect to live. Frog alone does not expect to live to a hundred and ten years and alone escapes fisherman's net
Carried in tale types

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